Canine Body Language The Hidden Messages HD

so a little bit about me I own Bravo doctor training for about 20 years I work mainly with behavior cases aggression and a variety of things over the years I also have some rescue shelters and vet clinics body language is basically we're just looking at the nonverbal signals the dogs are giving us all right with dogs that's really the goal of what they're giving us we spend an awful lot of our time talking so much of everything else dogs are mostly about body language to talk to meet each other and slightly to one side and the other side and that's how they have their conversation so learning about body language is pretty important from that perspective one thing that I want everybody to come talk about as we're going through this and you thought about it to get you here but a lot of us kind of have this idea that we do know what a dog is telling us I doubt there's anybody in this room that wouldn't you give this dog and go oh it's so scary um but what is important to us here and is that they want to look for smaller signals smaller signals are what it's going to be really important and really understanding the big picture so I have this picture as an example the picture we just looked at pretty obvious this one maybe not so much and there's a reason you can't see it very well partly it's the picture so there's a Doberman who's standing next to a fence there and he I believe it was a male but I'm not entirely sure I didn't throw up and find out he is standing at a at the edge of a children's park okay this was up in Washington Park there were probably about 50 kids playing in this market so this dog isn't giving nearly as much but he's giving enough if you know what to look for this saw not long well actually took the picture afterwards but the child walked up near the fence and this dog was tethered its owners were somewhere around you can kind of see oh there's a stroller in the background this dog to full-on snarl and lunged and snapped at a child that want your defense so what I'm hoping you guys will be able to recognize by the end of this are the smaller things that let us know what's going on with this job one of the biggest things I would say is that the park is behind him all right behind me where I'm standing taking what's a picture so if you're standing there tied to the fence first a half an hour and then there's a circus over here and an empty field over there would even look at probably the circus right it's a little more interesting he's standing facing opposite of the park for a reason all right he's turned away from that robotics thing I don't want to be here I'd rather be somewhere else I'm gonna kind of learn a lot pretend that they're not all here but when a kid gets so close that that's not an option anymore he said okay I really mean it go away from me okay there's a reason he's hard to see he's kind of trying to mean quite a bit at least she was so I went to a few things here as to why it's important to look at my language the earlier we can identify what behavior is going on with the dog the less chance of a bite the better chance of identity it's really truly going on we don't want to have to wait for the dog to make it it's so super they can help eliminate morphism so rather than even a bus or an owner looking at the dog and saying oh you know isn't he mr. that that really isn't a characteristic that dogs do the more we learn about body language the more we can understand them for them from their own point of view I just find the more that we understand about body language the less likely we are to attribute things falsely to dominance there are some things that accurately a dog is trying to be more dominant over another dog or some kind of situation like that or is acting more submissively but the way we've built up training not until now 15 years just we're slowly catching up um we used to kind of just say well she's jumping up on you he's trying to be dominant he's doing this he's trying to be dominant everything a poor dog did it was about dominance the more we can understand about what their body language is telling us more accurately we can contribute what they're doing okay and in fairness in communication dogs learn a limited amount of our language we can learn even more about theirs hopefully and like I said the more likely that if you look at acknowledge these little things that our dog does more likely to repeat that if the dog tries offering us signals trying to having our signals and we always ignore them or we always get them wrong we always shut them down so I'm dog stop offering them and that's not fair to MN it ends up being frustrating on ours or for whoever's trying work with a dog because all the sudden the stock doesn't signal the way that they used so the first thing I want you guys to think of when you're looking at body language and behavior is that it's not that a dog is aggressive or that a dog is afraid there's not a particular point that you can pick that out that would be kind of like looking at this picture and saying okay where is it turn green where does it turn blue there's no exact moment all right something that I try to tell owners a lot of times is you know they'll talk about their dog reacting to somebody or kind of exploding and I like to remind them you know chief you were walking down in an alley and there was some creepy looking dude walking down the other side of the alley the moment you decided to scream it was not the moment you became afraid okay there's so much more going on before that you might not be able to identify that moment and it's the same for dogs okay the moment that they explode is not the moment that they're becoming aggressive reactive that makes sense okay so the next thing when we're looking at body language is I want everybody to do their best to focus on objective observations versus subjective all observations so take a look at this dog here and then I want you to look at objective we can say things like his head is hanging low he's looking down maybe kind of away from whoever's taking them the picture his ears are kind of hanging low versus being maybe a little bit more up and work his tail might be tucked okay can't see it but that's a possibility and his paws a little bit rate some type of took observations of that would be things like saying oh well my dog is scared that dog is sad lonely worry guilty any of those types of things and those don't help us identify what's going on with the dog unless we're inside that dog's head we don't know for sure is it scared is it worried is it frightened what's going on in there but we can take an objective look and look at all these other things and that can help us put those two things together okay all right mints thing is that we have to observe everything within context so when people are learning about body language one of the first things that often comes off as a question or a confusion is well gee you know you talked about yawning you know the dog looks really exhausted and my dog yawn does that mean this this and this no probably not context is important almost everything we're going to talk about I can't think of any more I talked about today that couldn't be something else okay so what we have to do is look at what's going on in order to figure out does this make sense it's another reason that pictures aren't ideal so think about even when people we're gonna use nearly as much of the nonverbal communication how many different things a raised arm okay you know I race on could be just think of even driving a car okay it could be hey neighbor I'm good to see you it could mean go ahead you back to this stop sign thrust go through a wave can mean a lot of different things depending on the context okay because something that seems as Universal is like looking somebody off so context is really important especially for dogs where they can't say I was joking or yeah you know what I had something so the context is important okay all right so the next thing that we're looking at in just kind of general observation skills is that we want to look at these cues and not just look at any individual cue and say oh I saw something but try to look at repetition and cues okay so how many times a given Q is shown if I see five cues from the dog in five minutes that's probably going to tell me more than if I just saw one okay the frequency how often it's shown and then accompany what other cues are shown at the same time so a dog that yawns that also gives me six other cues it tells me a lot more likely that you know this is going on versus dies okay so when we look at observing by describing the behavior rather than trying to help you scared I think it's more useful to go through my body plants if you look at some of the resources that are offered for body language there are kind of two different approaches one is that you can look at what the eyes of the dog say what the head says what the tail says the other is is you'll see some list by this dog is scared this dog is being aggressive this dogs being dominant and that to me unless you're kind of just reviewing and saying oh gee you know these types of things tend to fall into playful and you think it makes more sense to look at them in the context of what you would observe okay so that's how we're going today so we're going to start out with the eyes there are a variety of ways we're going to go slide but there are different things that eyes can tell us I used to be pretty tricky I think we can often see more from where the eyes are looking and what's going on that way than the eyes themselves but there are some things specific to the eyes so a dog can often have either what we consider these soft eyes or heart eyes sometimes you can just tell by everything else that's going on with the dog which they've got going on in general a soft guy is going to be a little bit more almond shaped and they're gonna have more relaxed brows versus hard eye is going to be only been round or you're going to see a tighter tighter muscles around the eyes okay mom slow blinking tends to be a little bit more relaxed you can also see sweetie eyes their eyes have a little bit about local ways where lies the dilation of the eyes focus and fixation and the hyper vigilance so this is slowly some stinky eyes I think this is kind of a Golden Retriever like they kind of do this one a lot slow blinks can be from a dog that's relaxed and chilling out it can also be from a dog that's saying I really like everybody else to chill out I'm not too keen on the way things are going okay this picture this dog is probably soliciting attention there can also be you know you can also see it in dogs that are more stressed you probably see Simons and some of these other pictures as well so look aways if a dog is kind of like with it with the Doberman that I talked about it is looking the other direction whenever it's trigger is whatever the action is that says something about what's going on okay it could be deflective it can be calming to the avoidance it can be hey I don't want to fight you I'm just gonna be looking over here and just calm things down that said don't necessarily treat a dog that's looking away as a dog that's safe because any dog that's going hey you know what this is a bit much can change really quickly okay so why is something that you can see on dogs it's caused by the dog's head facing one direction and their eyes facing the other direction okay I think a lot of times kind of the dilation and everything else that's going on with the dogs contribute to this make it easier to see but it's where you can see that kind of blue shape of light of the dogs time okay this is going to be stress fear anxiety this tends to be a give space kind of a cue if I were looking at the dog that had that kind of an eye looking at what can I change what can I do to you know take the stock further away from what's going on myself back whatever so dilation and this is a big one that it would be considered out of context okay so if you're in a room with light kind of like in here we have a dog that's eyes were really dilated well probably everybody else's lives were violated in the right ear but if you're on a brighter environment and the dogs eyes are really violated that could be a body mind your side yes I'm stressed it can also be over arousal okay it doesn't necessarily mean that the dog is about to panic but it's probably a sign of devaluation along with some of the other things that we'll look at can also be a medical concern okay so if you're swinging at repeatedly eight things or things like that there can be medical reasons for some of these things too so yeah another reason to be looking in context looking at combinations of cues all those things it has all your guys are always dilated what you must be this okay all right you'll start to see a theme as we go from body part to body part if we see any kind of stillness if there's movement that stops so if I'm looking around the room and suddenly I think say okay and he ceasing a movement okay and the fixation and staring fall into that category - right eyes moving I stopped is a bit of a red flag okay it can be knee precipitous to a bite if I'm working with a dog and they're a little uncomfortable and suddenly they stop I'm gonna really really evaluate my next boot it does not mean that the dog is going to bite but it's a decent warning sign okay you can sometimes see this with guarding of items so it may be a focus or a fixation on whoever is is causing them trouble and maybe on another like that the fixation you directed towards what they're guarding so it may not be directed towards whoever's approaching situation but if there's a fixation there it's something that they aware so hyper-vigilance a little bit hard to show it's a still image but hyper vigilance basically refers to rather than let's say a dog out for a walk humans kind of checking things out as it walks down the street and maybe sniffing here and there this is referring to everywhere and they're kind of checking everything maybe repeatedly probably not staying too long on any one particular thing you're likely to see in a new or changed environment although it can come up in an existing environment with stress so it's kind of it's different than just looking around in that kind of case with a dog I'd be looking at okay gee I'm out for a walk and focus and they can say oh can we just stay in one spot for a few minutes there sometimes that's enough to bring things down okay or if you're out for a walk in you're grouchy mr. Varon I'm gonna take the dog to the farmers market or something today and the closer you get the more is going on all the way we're gonna get some more space okay so ears ears are one that can be a little tricky from breed to breed different breeds hold their doors differently have different shapes of yours there's a lot that goes on differently with ears based on breed so knowing the individual dog that you're looking at can have something to do with that but even with dogs real rose shape ears things like that you can often if you're looking close it still move that interior ear which would change the shape what's going on outside so in general a relaxed and more floppy ear is going to be more relaxed top pinned back in can be fearful um some dogs kind of pin back when they're anxious or really aroused some of those just kind of embankment stuff is going on forward can be alert and listening it can also mean that things are just kind of moving forward and that they're actually so there are a lot of things to consider with ears there's only so many ways a dogs move their ears they can also change direction based on listening okay so a dog that is maybe looking at what's going on over here and then hears something back or they might flip their ears back and backwards or change the direction just because they're focused on something else so mouth they need variety of things that can go on with them out some of them are really really specific and some of them take a lot of experience to know the particular differences with see we're going to go through a variety of them today if you're feeling like you're still really not understanding mouths stuff very well or you want to learn more about how what they're doing with their mouths I would encourage you to go and educate yourself with a lot of video and the difference in particularly when you will give things like a long lift for the tight short leg that can be really hard okay so I don't get into an excruciating detail here because I don't want anybody walking on it or going oh yeah well this that it takes a lot to get be aware there are differences but it takes a lot of looking to really fine-tune get that um open versus closed there's some body language stuff out there that will say OGE the dog with an open mouth this or a dog with a closed mouth that really it can go either way it depends a lot on the circumstance and what's going on with the dog the temperature and the rough a lot of things so looking at what's going on around them one thing that we can look at is that the change is to be noted okay so I say not all things are that closed that can we want to watch out for some dog that's been at the mouth part way open and then suddenly shuts it that's again can be of more of a stealing kind of a behavior we can also see mouth go close to open if a dog starts panting so that communicate and increase the stress snarling snapping biting I think most people are probably familiar with it snarling can be just any of these taste seriously okay there there are some people that will say oh well you know the dog tried to bite me but this or that all the way or this if the dog intends to bite you then unless for something physical preventing him they're gonna bite you these are homemade warnings we hopefully you can see a lot of stuff before this but looking at something like this I have someone contact me the other day with yeah something else big mix and say well you know my dog has been moving for a lot of people the difference between an idiot and a flight is how big the dog is right a chihuahua and submit a pitbull it's a byte and that's that's not entirely fair okay any of these go into that category so a 1000 Eiling have another may be rude it may be that they're uncomfortable it may be just saying hey back off one of the challenges that we have with a lot of dog behavior today is that we raise dogs like we would raise a child in a closet okay and then we take them out and expect them to act appropriately okay or like how you would raise a child and say oh he has a sibling he doesn't need any more socialization and then you take the child out when they turn 18 and wonder why they can't function in society but people raise copies and give them minimal to no socialization well I haven't overlap so it's fine so body language between dogs some dogs are really obnoxious in their life so it takes takes some learning intense there we have dog snarling this is another good example of context okay a submissive Grimm on the dog sometimes for some dogs they do it pretty easily when we think about it it's still a submissive Grimm so equating it exactly to a human smile when we look at everything else on this song but its eyes are kind of closed in squinty is ears are pretty darn relax okay if we will get you know these dogs reveals look up here all right that's where you see the base of the ear there's no tension map so this dog probably is pretty relaxed as submissive current is different than sorrow so panting um this is this is another good example of context okay 593 day your doctor dead then it's probably enhancing right it can be pretty normal natural behavior for dogs panting is also another one that I think that people tend to miss that could be a sign of stress okay so it can be a dog saying hey things are a bit much stressed I won't really around something is going on like that it can also come from just excitement but it's a sign like any of these others okay um drooling I have anyone panting because okay so the dog is in a car and starts drooling profusely probably stressfully okay so in this song we could look at him and say okay he's outside it could be sunny it could be warm there's some other stuff going on with this dog that would probably say otherwise so we're going to flip back to him in a minute so um the spatula tongue is the difference that you can pick up on in some dogs okay so what this refers to is when the time is out okay this is the same dog picture that's pretty different it's the same ball so in the picture on the right there she's got her mouth open she's relaxed the tongue is still in her mouth even I don't you could be a little bit a little bit different that's pretty relaxed picture you can see the eyes ears everything else is looking pretty bad okay here we've got the ears back you can see that the dilation in her eyes okay in this one she's indoors and this one she's outdoors this one to me the eyes that almost look more dilated than they do in the outdoor picture okay if you look at the shape of her top hair so it's a little bit more narrow hair and it kind of comes down and starts looping out that's what's referred to as a spatula all right if we flip back to this one you see it here yes okay so that's one of the things that tells me this dog is probably a little more stressed than just panting okay when we add in the ears back all the things we can see in the face that's more attention it's necessarily a relaxer the lab looking face you can see that that's actually what's at the time okay so that can be the difference between just panting can i warm and I'm stressed does that make sense okay this one has it too okay not the greatest picture but it does show that that time pretty well so yawn like I mentioned initially yawns can be being tired yawns can also be a big sign of stress anxiety it can be away for a little bit crazy Garrett let's just chill things out but it's probably a sign that the dog is stressed it kind of be really the big yawn sometimes dogs a new woman yawns stress cones tend to be a little bit bigger but it varies from north to dog some dogs will do vocalization let it stress your you may notice that vocalization with stress is different necessarily mean that they're more stressed or not so here's another good big one and this is one that's really can be really obvious if you're looking for it and yawn should be a fairly obvious sign for people that don't know it goes largely ignored so felt connected all right so this guy is a lot of signs one of the ones that I'm gonna call this one a girl cuz I keep pegging these all those boys but one of the ones that she's doing here is what we consider a lick or a tongue flick okay these are gonna be nice one if you're trying to go home and go gosh how do I take all of this so now look at dogs you pick things out this is another good one okay limits and conflicts can be stress anxiety conflict that they can be anywhere from just a teeny bit of the tongue flicking out and disappearing again to a pretty big full fledge everything else with this dog that dog is stressed and that's why that time is coming out okay if you're standing there holding a piece of chicken that's one may also come okay but when you look at it and contest with other things this is another one if you're trying to educate yourself on body language we talked in the beginning about repetition of cues and the frequency that they're given if you're trying to look at a dog let's say you're these fostering this dog or something like that and you're evaluating in this is another one to kind of think of okay I've seen one two three four five that's gonna make sense okay so here's another one for another example I have another in just just a few frames later that has massive whale like okay so it can be stressed they can also go outside - it doesn't both of those so here we found on one of the millions of happy kid a dog picture um you know in fairness to this dog again this is just still a little stressed out it could be something else too but when you start putting things together probably not as much as mom and dad okay so not the greatest picture any guys all see the little in there they'll get okay this is one of the ones that tends to drive your neighbors crazy because angry they get the more appeasement linking Vega in response so we're generally going to see this directed of another individual sometimes we'll do it in the air it can be a big one with puppies right those will see with adult dogs as well and it tends to be bond with you whatever it is and that's probably why this one is is frustrating because try Harmon these emotions sometimes will really really just big bloggers and others harm - yeah some dogs I think also really enjoy the soft inner so every lick isn't necessarily an appeasement type colectomy too strong they can also be grooming right what you do see all right so I put this one in here it's not so much body language but a lot of what we're talking about is kind of stress or increasing stress or warning signs things like that half earth side is a good one that I often ask a nurse to look for that's a sign that the dog might be trying to calm down it's calming down just sometimes be an after a stressful event I was working with some people yesterday and we were working on on dog reactivity when we work through dog poster up towards the dog park where everybody was who was fenced and across the street at a distance and there aren't ask me how should we get to get any you know let's let's try a little bit more then I went to the dog and what to the scientists now it's not and argued with this point turned its back on the dog from her and given me a few other times I wasn't losing it I mean he had him lost it all together but I said no we took two steps walking back to the car so that was for one thing we made the right decision okay always better to stop ahead of time and push it too far in my opinion ah but this dog was distressing okay sometimes you hear is a big size sometimes it's more of a puff but that that little bit of okay I'm chilling out now one of the other reasons to look for that is that is assignment things were too much before okay if it if it isn't that kind of a huff so it can be kind of an indicator of tea okay well things we're building up again but it tends to be it's my interaction hair move that Tyler eruption is a lot of people kind of blend typically go that dogs gonna be aggressive people look at they've got that in her head dog with their hackles up means that they're arresting it can but it can also just be awesome it can they can't come up with feeder conflict uncertainty you see a lot even just in puppy class if you had more puppies and another puppy comes in oh couples and what I'm gonna do probably nothing right it's just a different puppy put it together with some other stuff and you can probably build one whether as a feeder is it actually aggression or is the daughter was figuring out a new environment this is another one where something that works doing a lot of this you'll never see it some not just see the whole back some dogs like this one has a little section over the money section over the winners okay so you can vary from all right anonymous windows into the linen or they're standing there and they've just been bobbing in the shelves or something like that all of a sudden you know you go you bring the dog back out of the room and everything is covered in hair it doesn't necessarily mean that the dog is blowing cooked dogs Karen start shedding distress okay so a dog that in the parking lot of the vet clinic was doing just fine you walk into the vet clinic and you pet your dog and you get a handful of hair that's a clue okay like I said not quite as exaggerating is that but but you can notice a pretty extreme difference in some dogs so standard dinner face not a sign there anyway this is going to be someone I want to show okay some novice can be doing just fine you bring them into a more stressful environment and all the sudden that brush through and that's mine okay so then how their indicator potentially they're more stressed than they were so tails this is another one that some people struggle with a little bit because of the read and I think we you know by reading some dogs to have direct tails most of the time that makes it harder on the dog sometimes too so you know you may be more likely to see the tail then we want to breathe so that's some of it if you look at the positioning of the tail the base of the tail that can be helpful okay sometimes seeing more difference as to whether it's really a flag versus is it neutral or is it just kind of out sometimes anything in the base of the tail can give me more information so movement Friday things that can go in there but a lot of people still have that and even if you know it it may still be kind of generally it's probably uncomfortable but it can just be more of a I'm gonna may just not be wanted by terrified and a low tail can also just be relaxed tail just low if you just relax but there's a pretty big difference between that and this guy we can also see fun and if you look he's kind of got a nice black spot there see how low the base of the tail looks there okay that's kind of what I was talking about about seeing from the base is it we're going we from there versus being higher in a more relaxed position so that make sense there was a mother make sure that more towards the beginning that show it at the opposite direction um so a high position can be proposal and can be aggression play it could be solicitation either just okay and I want you to penny or a you're groggy and agree to you thank you very much but also be the girl boy I'm heat it could be a lot of different types of things and then like I said in some breeds this side right here probably knows although some level he's not just standing there with necessarily a naturally high tail his tail may be up a lot so middle position I would consider this kind of even middle position you might consider a glow but that's probably a pretty relaxed tail for this dog okay some dogs might have a tail that's in the middle and actually still be fearful aroused aggressive it may just be that they're beautiful but they're not terrified and showing it with their tail it may be that they're aggressive and they're just in between whatever I didn't able to think the one might like everything else but taken in context slower wedding is likely to be more relaxed it could be calming it could be more beautiful with a tense a little bit more relaxed faster can tend to be a little more aroused okay it can be playful it could be soliciting it could also be aggressive okay their dogs little bit while backing their tests I you know breeding wise and you can see them all run out personality in that dog some dogs by fast and they get really excited when they're getting some dollars kind of it really varies depending on the dog if they've kind of been wagging and their tail freezes like everything else and see sang carefully what's going on hi when suddenly stops or even lower and stops maybe they're interested in something else something they're getting ready to try you're not listening anymore now I'm gonna make you go away all right body posture this kind of encompasses a lot of things but this is trying to kind of look more at what the whole body is doing whether that's forward or backwards or more anything but we're looking at more full-body stuff rather than just eyes or ears just like that okay we're gonna go through a whole bunch of these time thank other than the last one I don't think there are any we're not going to look at individually last one obviously mention you again the dog ceases movement be very good we're okay um so posture how much standing how they're carrying the body way so that box could be angled forward it could be pretty square earth could be angled backwards and if you think of that box across the dog's body and then how look at the body of mochi is it square is it tipped that can help you figure that out the next picture you had it works well for visualizing it can tell you something about the direction of the dog would like to move so job that's angled forward maybe wanting to go forward they may be intending to go forward doesn't necessarily mean they want whatever is there okay so the dog leaning forward towards another dog doesn't necessarily mean they want to go make friends but that may be the direction that they're intending on going or the message we're trying to signal with backwards or square a dog that is going forward then Florida backward you may be conflicted or maybe just really really trying to remain you know you're gonna go away how could you go away so there are various things that can go on with their body language as to understanding they're not necessarily free is it one nice little box okay so if you look at this guy if you just kind of look at him in general it's kind of hard to see anything acquisition if you look at him and put a box on can you see it tipping forward just a smile respect okay so that's kind of where I say visualizing that can sometimes help you see where they're inoculation is but we're leaning forward it's not significant with this guy but there is that little bit definitely interested we can also have to tilt backwards um height from ground can have things to do it so we look at this alright that going is standing tall it's a tall lanky dog anyway but the dog is standing tall he's also ready go possibly yeah this one I think if it could dig itself a hole and lower than the ground probably with me this is a dog in a show believe it or not and the judge did examine the dog yes good times out tail is tucked ears are completely flat back so the world tight muscles are relaxed um this isn't what I think you see a lot of times through with all the various body parts and the ears to the facial muscles to the to the body muscles with the tighter muscles can just be really aroused and but when you think about a really playful dog they tend to even if they're about to be a little bit looser so he does tend to fall behind with fear can be aggressive if that's as far as the fear goes they're being territorial their house my life going on muscles okay like I said the loose your body is likely car kind of a little bit of a collection of signals that tend to be cut off signals disengagement cues or we might be no fight cue of the dogs I don't want to play this game anymore or you're coming too close or I really don't want to fight if you whatever they are you can see him arriving these things so turning away these dogs had been playing and they've taken a break okay so then we talked about kind of the body position lowering from if you were standing to maybe now you're sitting to maybe now your lines down those can be signs that you're not as interested anymore eased to revoke lying down I would say we go limits really saying yeah I'm done thank you okay it doesn't necessarily mean that they're being grasped in him River fray or anything like that oh it can but it can used to be saying let's take a break - okay scratching this is I think another one that's good if you're trying to watch for more signals okay some rocks do scratch please really itchy all right there there plenty of other reasons why a dog can scratch but if you've been on a walk and everything's going great your dog is doing fine and then you get pretty to situation maybe you try to walk across a wobbly bridge and your dog sitting down and stopping the scratch and stopping the scratch it's not likely then they got a bad case of fleas right beginning of the wobbly bridge I it's probably they're getting stress that okay so this is one that you can watch more and it's interesting to see it crop up because a lot of people don't see it until they know to look and then look how queue can be sniffing okay so these guys are all having a grand ol boss at the water this one this is again kind of like the circus or the boring field there's a lot going on behind this dog that's probably a little more interesting than enter the water so there's some decent chance that this dog's tank a break I don't want to be maybe then the play is too much for that dog maybe it's not comfortable with the other dogs maybe it is just a break or maybe defining a muscle that's dead and it is smell really good but it can be that's fine generally speaking this means what you think it does there are a few dogs here and there that will drop into a point about that maybe a little bit conflicted maybe trying to keep things happy and good but I really don't know if I can handle this for the most part play that was fairly Universal okay I think this was kind of a good example of the looser body even when they're exercising so this dog is playing running around can you see the difference between tight muscles running around playing and then I'm calm all right stress down so you know in this Lobby first one were stressed we probably see a lot more pullback in the face you probably wouldn't see the same kind of just kind of loose nets that you see in this one so the stock is active and doing stuff but not tight in that same kind of stressed way so this isn't a great picture but it gives kind of a good illustration okay on how to tell a smiling great but so so it's got a little bit of a slinky look to it overall that it's kind of curling from here right up through okay so you can get a circular body where the dog was actually kind of curving themselves and trying to have it can be just from anything from a polite approach to a little bit cautious spirit flows something along those lines you can also have an approach that circular bong a circular but rather than like oh hey I'm gonna play with you and so I'm gonna march right up to you it may be more of like candy I might come say hi and I come around it okay either one they're kind of in the states that make sense yes so it's so polished there can be a lot of different polish this one I would say is actually a little bit atypical in that it falls more into the predatory stalking type of behavior this particular picture there's there's the lowering of the head there's some other stuff that's why I'd say it's more predatory then there's there's other stuff on the other side and then MC pinsent yeah it doesn't suit him um he is too next yeah yeah yeah there's other stuff going on but this I know that this one is or doing a predatory type behavior we're gonna get a couple other pictures as well the big thing overall to know in college is that it means action is likely okay the pod tends to come up when they're gonna move okay it could be my pod comes up and I'm gonna come fight channel a it could be the pod comes up and then we're gonna - this way the dogs markings gonna be blessed no I it could be the palm comes up and the bird flushes but it's an action who's likely type of behavior heads off so by these two this one on the Left these two are two dogs that I have had in my board enchant program and they were fine okay they had stopped they were sniffing the provably one and just peed on bush and then kinda we engage those paws wanna okay so now there's very much of play and they were both ready the one on the right here this is the only more or less here okay that paws up that dogs next move maybe down the alley it may be to climb back up it could be a variety of things it could be to come forward but a call if to general terms means action is likely this is another one that can be really obvious okay this can be anything from bleating nervous blinking now you can also get licking from grooming okay yeah the king that becomes obsessive yeah a lot of different things but if in context of other stuff going on the dog stuff only needs to clean things up that can use my nothing more stressed okay same thing with with just the sniff okay some dogs will see something just this simple it's just turning in that direction and then they're back but it's probably silence dress so shave off tends to be another stress relief when we talk about that Hough before shake off can be the same way it can also be used as kind of a calming sign everybody's going to calm down these two dogs were just playing and now they're taking a break okay all right so one of the last things that we're going to look at there this is really easy to find I stop there everywhere on the internet it's probable British small animal veterinary association is where this this is a really nice example because it kind of gives us some idea of how things tend to progress this is not a later on than reasonable dog in this is what's gonna happen and you're gonna see every single sign before they get to the whitening but this is a general guide that can take you off so we tend to see things for more of a handy little stress seven on one things to be calm everything's okay all the way up to you're not getting at I'm so freaked out that I need to take immediate action okay so just kind of generally reminder you know now we've been through all of those that you know we're looking at things within contact so look at context when it comes to looking at my language these are some really good ones video is really good video wonderful pictures but there's some limitation to that as well okay and then ASPCA website they have some good information just on their website they also do have a webinar that's specific to body language you

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